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 Vol. 150 Issue 004 (April 1 2023)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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Reconsidering merit and inequality MERITED CRITICISM George Scialabba, in his January article “What Were We Thinking?” suggests at one point that anyone who thinks the idea of “merit” has any...
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The Silicon Valley Bank bailout
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FROM THE EDITORS Friends in High Places During a 2016 Democratic primary debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that “Congress does not regulate Wall Street, Wall Street regulates Congress.”...
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France’s pension protests
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Doyle, Miles
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The FBI’s ‘Anti-Catholic’ Memo It’s easy to make fun of the leaked FBI memo that proposed infiltrating radical-traditionalist Catholic organizations to gather intelligence on the violent...
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Democracy in Paraguay
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Ramos, Santiago
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Paraguay at
a Crossroads The Republic of Paraguay is a small, sparsely populated country nestled between Argentina and Brazil. A mostly agrarian society, its main sources...
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A renewed baptismal ecclesiology
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Ferrone, Rita
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SHORT TAKES RITA FERRONE Back to
the Font Baptismal ecclesiology &
Vatican II I recently had occasion to visit the church of the parish where I grew up. My family is deeply associated with...
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Letter from Germany
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Donahue, William Collins
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WILLIAM COLLINS DONAHUE Whose War
Is It? Letter from Germany It was a morning of stark contrasts: giggling ten-year-old school kids filing into the modern chapel built on the site of the...
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Modernizing madrasas
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Howard, Thomas Albert
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SHORT TAKES THOMAS ALBERT HOWARD Islam’s Future in Kathmandu How a new initiative seeks to modernize madrasa education Islam isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of...
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The future of American democracy
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Kloppenberg, James T.
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ARTICLE Coming
Apart? James T. Kloppenberg The future of democracy in America. Respect. Dignity. Recognition. Non-domination. These words pepper the writings of Americans on the Left when...
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What has become of the white working class?
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Phillips, Mark
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ARTICLE Elegy for My People Mark Phillips How did the white working class fall for a suit whose catchphrase
was “You’re fired”? The hands of my male kin were calloused and grimed. One of my...
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Portraits of Iranian protesters
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Anonymous
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PHOTO ESSAY Blinding Injustice Half a million Iranian protesters have suffered serious eye injuries after police fired on them with birdshot. Here are eight faces of courage. On September 16...
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End-of-life dreams and visions
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Lauritzen, Paul
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Final Visions Paul Lauritzen A hospice doctor makes sense of end-of-life dreams. In April 2018, my wife of thirty-eight years died from complications of ovarian cancer. During her...
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‘Dear Other’
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Harp, Jerry
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POETRY DEAR OTHER Jerry Harp If I stopped believing in you, would the lights shine more brightly, the elder trees turn more feathery, everything thingier in the sun? Would you seize my...
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‘To Survive I Need You To Survive’
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Lucky, Katherine
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ARTS KATHERINE LUCKY No Words Needed ‘To Survive I Need You
to Survive’ Last year, I attended two funerals: one for a family member, another for the family member of a close friend. Guests...
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Jake Bittle
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Simon, Isabella
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INTERVIEW Where Will
They Go?
An interview with Jake Bittle Jake Bittle is a staff writer at Grist who covers climate change. His new book is The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the...
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Jon Fosse’s Septology
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Griffiths, Paul J.
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CRITIC AT LARGE PAUL J. GRIFFITHS An I Brought to Rest The theology of Jon Fosse’s ‘Septology’ There’s an old debate among Christian theologians about the life of the world to...
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Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf
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Fisher, Naomi
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BOOKS Freedom, True and False NAOMI FISHER A small German university town may seem an unlikely
site for the emergence of the modern self. But, at the end of the eighteenth century, a fiery...
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Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves
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Ruberry, Brendan
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BOOKS Culturally
Redundant? BRENDAN RUBERRY Until a recent moment in human history, writes Martin Amis, “there was, simply, the Man.” The Man’s chief characteristic “was that he got...
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Books in Brief
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BOOKS IN BRIEF The opening vignette of Survival of the Richest
sees the author, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, invited to a secluded luxury resort for what turns out to...
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G-Man by Beverly Gage
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Deignan, Tom
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Circle in the Public Square TOM DEIGNAN In the final season of the British crime drama Peaky Blinders, a gangster-turned-MP explains why he is able to work with socialists as well as...
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‘From the Bench’
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Kampa, Stephen
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POETRY FROM THE BENCH upon reading the prologue to Philip Roth’s The Great American Novel Stephen Kampa One sees, from the beginning, where this book is going: life’s a game ...
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Migrant aid in Tucson
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Nava, Alejandro
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Sacred Duties ALEJANDRO NAVA “Do you not see how necessary,” John Keats once wrote, “a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart...
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‘Baptism’
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Wohlfeld, Valerie
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POETRY BAPTISM Valerie Wohlfeld You enter through the door of roses and trefoil, held in your mother’s hands that seem as holy as the Madonna’s hands; the alcove Madonna who never...
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